Guys,
As far as leverage is concerned, I agree traders need to keep sufficient margins to ensure they can stay in the game longer.
For this strategy, since our loss days can yield a maximum 40 point loss on any day ... you can be slightly over leveraged however I would still recommend atleast 30K capital per Nifty lot traded (or Rs 15K per mini nifty lot).
Even if we make net 200 point every month (which I think is not difficult to achieve)... we are talking about 30% returns on investment.
If you can do that for an year, your 30K will turn to approx 7 lakhs and if you can do it for 2 years, it will turn to 1.62 crores .. why over leverage and lose your capital in 3-4 loss days when you can trade underleveraged and still end up as a multi-millionaire in 2 years???
Remember the childhood story of the greedy man who slaughtered his hen which lay a golden egg daily to be rich immediately.....
Cheers
SH